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Hi I had my sleeve surgery on Nov 30th I have slowly been experiencing increasing Hair loss. Is there anyone that has experience with this? How did you resolve it? I am taking in all my Proteins and water..I am also losing weight slowly.

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Almost EVERYONE experiences hair loss post-WLS. It's a triple whammie, because WLS patients undergo anesthesia, have rapid weight loss, and have a period of vitamin/mineral deficiency... all of which can cause Hair loss. There is little you can do NOW to prevent hair loss you are currently experiencing. It is all due to things that happened to your body months ago. There are possibly things you can do to help with regrowth, like special shampoos and taking Biotin. And obviously keeping up with all of your Vitamins and Protein can only help.

The good news is, it grows back. I lost hair from about 3.5 months post-op to about 5 months post-op and it began regrowing right away.

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I also have tons of regrowth now at 9 months post-op and the hair loss was really more of a hair thinning. I had to have my gallbladder out in November and I am now 3 months post op from that and a bit of loss is happening again. You will be fine I promise!

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Hi I had my sleeve surgery on Nov 30th I have slowly been experiencing increasing hair loss. Is there anyone that has experience with this? How did you resolve it? I am taking in all my Proteins and Water..I am also losing weight slowly.

I also had my surgery on Nov 30. I am using Keratase Shampoo and conditioner and it has helped with the thinning. I have lost 65 lbs so far with 50 or 55 more to go. I am currently stalled there but I know it will pass. How about you?

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Hi I had my sleeve surgery on Nov 30th I have slowly been experiencing increasing hair loss. Is there anyone that has experience with this? How did you resolve it? I am taking in all my Proteins and Water..I am also losing weight slowly.

I also had my surgery on Nov 30. I am using Keratase Shampoo and conditioner and it has helped with the thinning. I have lost 65 lbs so far with 50 or 55 more to go. I am currently stalled there but I know it will pass. How about you?

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I will have to try that and see if it helps me.. I have lost 43lbs postop. With 100 lost before surgery. I seem to not going any wear for the last 3 or so weeks not sure what i need to do differently. Any suggestions?

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Is there anything that can be done to try to help prevent prior to surgery?

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